Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 14:52:52 04/21/02
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On April 21, 2002 at 13:18:04, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On April 20, 2002 at 20:03:14, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>
>>On April 19, 2002 at 18:18:44, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
[...]
>>>
>>>Quick question: when I refer to your app, should it be in all caps ("CHEST") or
>>>mixed case ("Chest")?
>>
>>That is a difficult question for me, since English is not my mother tongue.
>>I started with all Caps CHEST, but did not like it myself: it is too much
>>like shouting. Bob talks of crafty in all lowercase, but I do not like
>>that best, since it is not a normal word of the language. It is a name,
>>and so I decided to write it the same way I write my own name, with a
>>capital first letter: Chest.
>>
>>Someone with a better knowledge of English may correct me, my reasoning may
>>violate some established rule I don't know about.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Heiner
>
>
>I don't think there are established rules.
>
>I was previously referring to it as Chest then changed and began calling it
>CHEST. Do the letters represent other words (e.g., DOS is capitalized because
>it means "Disk Operating System" but "Mac" is not capitalized as it is just a
>short version of "Macintosh")?
CHEST = CHEss analyST
^^^ ^^
So it is not (exactly) an acronym.
>Even if the letters do not represent other words, one possible benefit of using
>all capital letters ("CHEST") is that people are more likely to quickly realize
>you are referring to a piece of software rather than a body part. ;-)
May be true (more quickly i.e.), but the body part would be all lower case,
"chest", so I guess I will stick to "Chest". That's like "Fritz" instead of
"FRITZ", so I guess I'm in good company ;-))
Of course, I don't mind others to use it (call it) differently.
Cheers,
Heiner
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